The Woman's View

An Anthology of Prose Passages about Women, from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Herausgeber: Benn, June Wedgwood

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Produktbeschreibung

What is it like being a woman? Originally published in 1967, here is a collection of passages, all linked by their theme, that of being a woman. They are taken from novels, essays, letters and diaries written by or about women concerning their psychology and position in society from the later eighteenth century onwards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780367860356
• ISBN-10: 036786035X
• Artikelnr.: 62850298

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Young Girls: from The House by Elizabeth
Bowen 2. Different Girls: from The Waves by Virginia Woolf 3. Being a Girl:
from Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 4. Growing Up I:
from The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers 5. Growing Up II: from
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence 6. Wanting a Chance in Life: from The Story of
an African Farm by Olive Schreiner 7. Wanting Something More: from Jane
Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8. A Young Girl's Aspirations: from Journals by
Marie Bashkirtseff 9. Being Non-Educated: from Letters by Mary Kingsley 10.
Weak Woman: from A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary
Wollstonecraft 11. Being in Love I: from Emma by Jane Austen 12. Planning
for the Future: from Middlemarch by George Eliot 13. Being a Governess:
from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë 14. Being Engaged: from The Egoist by George
Meredith 15. Marriage for the Wrong Reasons - Or to the Wrong Man: from
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 16. Love and Commonsense: from Letters
by Jane Austen 17. Advising a Daughter on Life: from Letters by Queen
Victoria 18. Being Married: from At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield 19.
Being Married - and a Little Older: from To the Lighthouse by Virginia
Woolf 20. Being a Bluestocking Married to a Genius: from Letters by Jane
Welsh Carlyle 21. Wanting a Life of One's Own: from All Passion Spent by
Victoria Sackville-West 22. Escaping Temporarily: from A View of the
Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor 23. How Life Passes: from Tenterhooks by Ada
Leverson 24. Coming Up for Air: from Dangerous Ages by Rose Macauly 25.
Bird in a Cage: from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 26. Being an Outsider:
from The Holiday by Stevie Smith 27. Being Dissatisfied with the Love of
Man: from The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann 28. Being a Sensitive Soul:
from Howard's End by E.M. Forster 29. Loving: from The Woodlanders by
Thomas Hardy 30. Being in Love II: from Letters to Imlay by Mary
Wollstonecraft 31. Man's Ideal Wife - and Later: from Middlemarch by George
Eliot 32. Man's Ideal of Woman: from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde 33.
Woman Playing up to Her Role: from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde 34. The
Shavian Ideal of Woman and Man: from Man and Superman by George Bernard
Shaw 35. Being a 'Free' Woman: from My Life by Isadora Duncan 36. Bringing
up Baby: from A Proper Marriage by Doris Lessing 37. A Man Infatuated - and
Out of Love: from Liber Amoris by William Hazlitt 38. Being a Mother: from
Look the Other Way by John Branfield 39. A Man in Two Minds: from
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock 40. If Shakespeare had Been a Woman:
from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 41. Being a Political Woman:
from The New Machiavelli by H.G. Wells 42. Women and Fiction: from Granite
and Rainbow by Virginia Woolf 43. Woman in Present Society: from 'The
Guardian' by Mary Stott. Suggestions for Oral Discussion or Written Work.
Suggestions for Further Reading.